ABSTRACT

Critical Readings on Piaget is a follow-up to Piaget: Critical Assessments a collection of eighty-three papers dealing with the critique of Piaget's work in psychology, education and philosophy during the period 1950-90. This new collection tracks developments in the most recent published work during the period 1990-95, with an integral guide and editorial commentary by Leslie Smith. Starting with Piaget's epistemology, a major intellectual resource in departmental psychology and eduction, Leslie Smith sets out the main elements of Piaget's position in relation to twenty one papers, dealing with equilibration and equilibrium, education and social development, reasoning development, number development and modal knowledge. A conclusion examines the psychological and educational assessment of Piaget's epistemology. This collection of distinctive studies during the last five years provides high-profile and engaging examples from current research in this area. It will provide a useful and compact text for undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers.

chapter 4|15 pages

Values, knowledge, and Piaget

chapter 7|27 pages

Thinking as argument

chapter 8|31 pages

The microgenetic method

Robert S.Siegler and Kevin Crowley

chapter 10|20 pages

Higher-order structure and relational reasoning

Usha Goswami and Ann L. Brown

chapter 12|22 pages

Magic

Carl N.Johnson and Paul L.Harris

chapter 15|35 pages

Children and arithmetic

chapter 21|17 pages

Proof construction

Carol Foltz, Willis F.Overton and Robert B.Ricco